Growth: A Reckoning
by Daniel Susskind · 16 Apr 2024 · 358pp · 109,930 words
up access to search engines just for one year (as well as $8,414 to give up email, and $3,648 to lose access to digital maps).21 Yet as the authors of that work note, in 2016 the information sector made up the same fraction of GDP as it had in
50 Future Ideas You Really Need to Know
by Richard Watson · 5 Nov 2013 · 219pp · 63,495 words
, but things are changing down on the farm. “Precision agriculture” is a term used to describe the use of hyperspecific GPS (global positioning systems) and digital mapping to control precisely the application of seeds, pesticides and water to crops and, on occasion, to manage livestock. For example, precise satellite imagery of fields
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driverless trains. Indeed, much of the technology needed for driverless cars already exists. Radar cruise control, motion sensors, lane-change warnings, electronic stability control, and digital mapping are all here. The main obstacle is regulation, liability laws and our own feelings about letting go of the steering wheel. And if this makes
The Power Law: Venture Capital and the Making of the New Future
by Sebastian Mallaby · 1 Feb 2022 · 935pp · 197,338 words
to cleanse the culture of the firm. At Uber, Benchmark ultimately defenestrated Kalanick. Meanwhile, venture capitalists have backed dozens of technologies that are obvious boons: digital maps, online education, biotechnology, and so forth. The companies that VCs create are much more a force for progress than a source of regression. Venture capital
The Capitalist Manifesto
by Johan Norberg · 14 Jun 2023 · 295pp · 87,204 words
for them. They would be willing to pay an incredible average of $18,000 for search engines, $8,000 for email and $3,600 for digital maps – per year. If you included just these three services in US GDP per capita by the price people would be willing to pay, the average
Superbloom: How Technologies of Connection Tear Us Apart
by Nicholas Carr · 28 Jan 2025 · 231pp · 85,135 words
a pair of augmented-reality glasses that the company has in prototype. The glasses mapped, automatically and in fine detail, everything she looked at. Such digital mapping will allow Meta to create, as the Reality Labs’ chief scientist, Michael Abrash, explained, “an index” of “every single object” in a person’s surroundings
Program Or Be Programmed: Ten Commands for a Digital Age
by Douglas Rushkoff · 1 Nov 2010 · 103pp · 32,131 words
system can be studied purely in terms of pressure zones, a financial market can be analyzed through the axes of supply and demand, and a digital map can represent the world in terms of wealth, violence, or real-time births. Because digital simulations are numerical models, many choices about them must be
The Day the World Stops Shopping
by J. B. MacKinnon · 14 May 2021 · 368pp · 109,432 words
.” The researchers that were studying right whales in the days after 9/11 were from the New England Aquarium, in Boston. The aquarium keeps a digital map of North America’s eastern seaboard, showing shipping traffic, fishing traffic, undersea pipelines and cables, and so on, and it is as crowded with lines
Spooked: The Trump Dossier, Black Cube, and the Rise of Private Spies
by Barry Meier · 17 May 2021 · 319pp · 89,192 words
Cube’s digital producers build the website of CPW Consulting. At one point, an ad appeared on the firm’s LinkedIn page looking for a digital mapping specialist. The opening was genuine. It just wasn’t for a job at CPW Consulting. Scott-Railton ran phrases from the posting through Google and
Road to Nowhere: What Silicon Valley Gets Wrong About the Future of Transportation
by Paris Marx · 4 Jul 2022 · 295pp · 81,861 words
five more years of development would be necessary, but that was not all. You need latest-generation mobile infrastructure everywhere, as well as high-definition digital maps that are constantly updated. And you still need near-perfect road markings. This will only be the case in very few cities. And even then
Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires
by Douglas Rushkoff · 7 Sep 2022 · 205pp · 61,903 words
on themselves, convert into digital form, and migrate to that realm as robots, artificial intelligences, or mind clones. Once they’re there, living in the digital map rather than the physical territory, they will insulate themselves from what they don’t like through simple omission. Just as our proprietary GPS maps don
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Seveneves
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Platform Revolution: How Networked Markets Are Transforming the Economy--And How to Make Them Work for You
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Wired for War: The Robotics Revolution and Conflict in the 21st Century
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Artificial Unintelligence: How Computers Misunderstand the World
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